HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST Annual Report 2007-8 Contents This past year has been a period of Artistic Excellence. Innovation. Passion. I. General Information remarkable achievement for HMDT. Inclusiveness. 2. Support As you read through this report, I think it These are core values that lie at the very will become clear that the Company is heart of everything HMDT does.Together, 3. Ensuring A Musical continuing to grow in ever changing they inspire all our teachers, administrators, Future directions.The volume of activity, the funders and Trustees and they are passed scope and breadth of our projects and the on to all the many thousands of people, 4. HMDT Music high level of inspiration and innovation young and old, who take part in our Centres which challenges conventional ideas of projects. music education is impressive. 5. HMDT in Schools For all of us at HMDT they also represent Confucius Says, our project celebrating the the motivation to create new challenges 6. HMDT in the Beijing Olympics, marks our first large-scale and opportunities, and during the course Community project commissioned and financed by of this past year and the year ahead, we schools themselves. Our CYM Xtra! Project are taking time to undertake a strategic 7. Financial Highlights involving a new commission by composer review of where we should be focusing Matthew King specially written for our talents and resources. Every project 8. Outreach Summary internationally renowned cellist Natalie and event in which HMDT has a hand Clein, demonstrates our continued enjoys a special integrity all of its own and 9. New Initiatives commitment towards exciting new works. all are delivered with educational integrity We are proud of the recognition we have and musical excellence in mind. 10. Looking Ahead received for groundbreaking projects, and hope to bring our projects to even more Much planning and organisation goes into people in the future. delivering all that we do. It is a critical component of our success, and comes to None of this would be possible without fruition under the professional leadership the tireless support of friends and of our amazing staff.They deserve our colleagues.Tremendous thanks go to the thanks for transforming a once modest many partners, musicians, artists and musical charity into a vibrant cultural project managers we have worked with company. throughout the year.Their hard work and inspiration have been responsible for our We are indeed fortunate to have the continued achievements. financial and moral support of The Learning Trust who, I believe, recognise that The culmination of these projects together quite apart from the consistently high with new ones in development such as standards of our work, we also deliver very Shadowball – a new Jazz opera combining good value for money. music and baseball, and others involving disciplines such as Science and the Arts, Everyone who has been associated with an and film, will continue to demonstrate our HMDT project has a lot to be proud of. I vision, that music and the arts have a place and my fellow Trustees feel privileged to be in every aspect of our lives, and that the associated with its ambitious mission of Company’s creativity will continue to take bringing the very best of musical us in unexplored directions. opportunities to all those who participate in its projects and we feel proud to be part of their success. Adam S. Eisenberg Cover photo: Director, HMDT Patrick Maddams Photo Clive Barda Chairman I. 2. General Information Support Scope of Report HMDT is very grateful to all those who have provided This report is for the fiscal funding to support our work. year 2008, and outlines the Their continued commitment activities of the Trust to music education helps us to throughout the period provide quality projects which between 1 April 2007 and change people’s lives. 31 March 2008. Our sincere thanks also go to those who have supported our work over the past decade: HMDT is grateful for core support from The Learning Trust, ensuring it Barratt East London directs all its fundraising activities The Britten-Pears Foundation towards the development and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation sustainability of projects. City University Draper’s Company ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Dresdner Kleinwort Benson AWARDS FOR ALL Eidos plc THE BIG LOTTERY FUND Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust CHINA NOW The Foyle Foundation THE CITY BRIDGE TRUST The Foundation for Sport and the Arts CULTURE 2000 Guardian Royal Exchange EHSC EAZ Hackney Education Business Partnership ELEVATE Hackney YOT THE ERNEST COOK TRUST The Holocaust Task Force EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND HSBC Bank Trust THE FRIENDS OF CYM HACKNEY J.P. Jacobs Charitable Trust THE FRIENDS OF HMDT LAB/LEAP Partnership THE GARFIELD WESTON Lankelly Trust FOUNDATION Lloyds TSB Foundation HACKNEY MUSIC SERVICE London Arts HACKNEY PAROCHIAL CHARITIES Making Music THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE Maurice Fry Charitable Trust FOUNDATION Midland Bank THE HENRY SMITH FOUNDATION Morgan Stanley International Foundation THE JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION The Morris Charitable Trust THE LEARNING TRUST The Paul Hamlyn Foundation LSC, LONDON EAST The RVW Trust THE LONDON BOROUGH Save & Prosper Educational Trust OF HACKNEY Shoreditch Trust THE MERCERS’ COMPANY The Simon Heller Charitable Settlement PRS FOUNDATION Sir John Cass’s Foundation QUEEN ANNE’S GATE FOUNDATION Willis Corroon THE STANDARDS FUND FOR MUSIC The Woodroffe Benton Foundation SURE START HOMERTON / Worshipful Company of Information HACKNEY WICK Technologists YOUTH MUSIC Yamaha-Kemble (UK) Ltd. and PRIVATE DONATIONS 3. Ensuring A Musical Future What is HMDT? increase access to high quality arts community.The scope and breadth of HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT experiences, raise achievement and HMDT’s projects, and the high level of TRUST (HMDT) is a dynamic charity, harness creative energy. inspiration and innovation they which creates a variety of music demonstrate, are designed to challenge projects encompassing a broad range of HMDT’s comprehensive approach and compliment conventional ideas of cultural traditions and talents, working includes commissioning new music education. closely with schools and many other performance works, creating enduring organisations to sustain a legacy of partnerships with other arts HMDT supports initiatives which music education for people of all ages organisations, planning music initiatives broaden the role of music in the and abilities in Hackney and beyond. according to identified need and educational and cultural life of the HMDT is a leader in developing bringing professional artists and other communities in which it works, designing inspiring arts projects which support music industry professionals together to long-term sustainable projects to other areas of learning, and works to work with schools and the wider continue ensuring a musical future! Vision HMDT’s vision is of a society in which people believe music to be a great art form which is critical to making a positive difference in all areas of learning, and should be shared and enjoyed by everyone. Mission HMDT exists to contribute to the cultural and educational enrichment of the communities which it serves by producing a diverse programme of performances, events, community and education projects of the highest quality, which reach the widest possible public. Core Values Artistic Excellence Innovation Balance HMDT values the very best the arts have HMDT values projects which promote HMDT believes that music must be to offer, and wants others to share its achievement and inspire individuals by experienced in all its exciting forms, and is belief and share in its work, through the challenging and complimenting committed to creating and developing creation of education projects and arts conventional ideas of music education. projects which explore a variety of productions of the highest quality. musical styles. Community Passion Inclusiveness HMDT believes in fostering a sense of HMDT believes that artistic excellence is HMDT values the diversity of the people community through education by built upon the passion of artists, staff and and communities with whom it works, and addressing areas of social responsibility participants. HMDT is dedicated to strives to be inclusive in all aspects of its and creating projects which raise supporting artists and the variety of art work. community aspirations and expectations.. forms they bring to the communities in which they work. The Company in 2007-08 Hackney Music Development Trust HMDT Board of Trustees HMDT Staff (HMDT) is an independent charity (Registration No: 1050520) established The Trustees who have served Adam Eisenberg in October 1995, with the support of throughout this year are: Director, HMDT The London Borough of Hackney and the Hackney Local Education Authority Patrick Maddams, Chair Sarah Godfrey (LEA). Since August 2002, support for Manager HMDT’s core costs has generously been Fiona Bryce given by The Learning Trust, a private Zoe Kilb company responsible for the delivery of Tony Clark Projects Administrator education services in the London Borough of Hackney. Michael Helston Sandrine Schwartz Intern The success of the Company is Tina Jones maintained through a close relationship HMDT Project Director 2007-08 between HMDT’s Board of Trustees and Farquhar McKay Tertia Sefton-Green HMDT Staff.This relationship is based Project Director – Schools and upon the Board’s trust in the Emuoborhwo Siakpere Community Learning professional approach of staff when promoting the